GRAND TURK, the Turks and Caicos Islands -- Adrift out here on the fringes of the Caribbean, the Turks and Caicos Islands sit at the bottom of the Bahamas chain, nature's afterthought 575 miles southeast of Miami.

But Grand Turk's ship has come in. This tiny island once received perhaps 10,000 visitors a year. It's now welcoming an estimated 300,000. In February, Holland America Line's MS Noordam became the first ocean liner to dock at the Island's Grand Turk Cruise Center.

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